{"id":508966,"date":"2026-07-04T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:34:10","slug":"emergency-response-at-christchurch-airport-after-smell-of-smoke-diverts-air-new-zealand-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508966\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency response at Christchurch Airport after \u2018smell of smoke\u2019 diverts Air New Zealand flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services could be seen on the runway of the airport, with both fire and ambulance crews responding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">According to flight code database Squawk7700.com, the aircraft\u2019s pilot issued a squawk code 7700 \u2013 the universal radio code to signal an in-flight general emergency to air traffic control \u2013 at about 3.10pm.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Flight NZ630 from Queenstown to Auckland was diverted to Christchurch. Image \/ Flight Radar 24\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Flight NZ630 from Queenstown to Auckland was diverted to Christchurch. Image \/ Flight Radar 24<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John was notified of an \u201caviation incident\u201d at Christchurch Airport at 3.13pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe responded five ambulances, three rapid response units, and one manager. Our crews were not required,\u201d St John said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services could be seen on the runway of the airport, with both fire and ambulance crews responding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,68,2681,1975,17517,45719,4487,73,253470,15974,70,117,111,43,139,69,1118,5034,79790,3948,20881,80],"class_list":["post-508966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-air","tag-airport","tag-at","tag-because","tag-cabin","tag-christchurch","tag-diverted","tag-diverts","tag-emergency","tag-flight","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-response","tag-smell","tag-smoke","tag-triggered","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}